News & Updates

• 2021 Century and Sesquicentennial Farm/Home Applications Now AvailableThe 2021 Century (100 years) and Sesquicentennial (150 years) Farm & Home Program Awards are a prestigious award given to families who have dedicated their life to Wisconsin farming for 100 or 150 years.To qualify for the award, families are required to provide proof of continuous family ownership of a property in the state of Wisconsin for either the last 100 or 150 years.The Century Farm and Home Program began in 1948 in conjunction with the State of Wisconsin’s Centennial Celebration.  In 2020, 154 property owners were honored.  The Sesquicentennial program similarly originated in 1998 as part of the state’s Sesquicentennial Celebration and over 900 families have been honored.Applications must be postmarked by March 1, 2021.  Only one certificate may be issued per property.

2021 Century Farm or Home Application

2021 Sesquicentennial Farm or Home Application

• • 2021 Farm Safety and Health Week: Farm safety yields results September 20, 2021
    Farm safety efforts do yield results. Not only do you reduce risk for yourself and others, the efforts can also pay big dividends in terms of your happiness, productivity and satisfaction of a job well done and a life well lived.
  • Developing a harvest strategy for the 2021 corn silage harvest September 3, 2021
  • Register now for the fall sessions of Extension’s Badger Crop Connect August 27, 2021
    The University of Wisconsin-Madison Division of Extension’s Badger Crop Connect, is finishing up the 2021 growing season with several webinars in September and October. This series provides agronomists, crop consultants and farmers timely crop updates for Wisconsin during the growing season.
  • WI DNR, UW-Madison Extension and UW-Madison College of Agricultural and Life Sciences Announces Nitrate Webinar Series July 29, 2021
    A virtual webinar series focused on nitrate in Wisconsin will touch on the science and economics around a number of workable approaches for farmers shown to minimize nitrogen losses to groundwater.
  • Agronomy/Soils Field Day scheduled for August 25, 2021 July 14, 2021
    Learn the latest in agronomic research being conducted by University of Wisconsin-Madison researchers at the 2021 Agronomy and Soils Field Day hosted by UW-Madison Departments of Agronomy and Soil Science in collaboration with the Arlington Agricultural Research Station on Aug. 25, 2021.
  
  

• Central WI Ag Services
• Hancock Agricultural Research Station
• WI Department of Agriculture, Trade, & Consumer Protection
• United States Department of Agriculture
• Central WI Agricultural Specialization
• Agriculture and Natural Resources Extension